Publications

Publications

1.  Warton D.I. (June 2007, in press). Raw data graphing: an informative but under-utilised tool for the analysis of multivariate abundances. Austral Ecology.

2.  Forster M.A. & Warton D.I. (2007). A metacommunity-scale comparison of species-abundance distribution models for plant communities of eastern Australia. Ecography 30(4), 449-458.

3.  Lusk C.H. & Warton D.I. (2007). Global meta-analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny. New Phytologist 176, 764774.

4.  Warton D.I. (2007). How many words do you know? An integrated assessment task for introductory statistics students. Journal of Statistics Education 15(3).

5.  Warton D.I. (2007). Robustness to failure of assumptions of tests for a common slope amongst several allometric lines - a simulation study. Biometrical Journal 49(2), 286-299.

6.  Warton D.I., Wright I.J., Falster D.S. & Westoby M. (2006). Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry. Biological Reviews 81(2), 259-291.

7.  Weisbecker V. & Warton D.I. (2006). Evidence at hand: Diversity, functional implications, and locomotor prediction in intrinsic hand proportions of diprotodontian marsupials. Journal of Morphology 267(12), 1469-1485.

8.  Ramp D., Caldwell J., Edwards K.A., Warton D. & Croft D.B. (2005). Modelling of wildlife fatality hotspots along the Snowy Mountain Highway in New South Wales, Australia. Biological Conservation 126(4), 474-490.

9.  Warton D.I. (2005). Many zeros does not mean zero inflation: comparing the goodness-of-fit of parametric models to multivariate abundance data. Environmetrics 16(3), 275-289.

10.  Wright I.J., Reich P.B., Cornelissen J.H.C., Falster D.S., Garnier E., Hikosaka K., Lamont B.B., Lee W., Oleksyn J., Osada N., Poorter H., Villar R., Warton D.I. & Westoby M. (2005). Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships. New Phytologist 166, 485-496.

11.  Wright I.J., Reich P.B., Cornelissen J.H.C., Falster D.S., Groom P.K., Hikosaka K., Lee W., Lusk C.H., Niinemets U., Oleksyn J., Osada N., Poorter H., Warton D.I. & Westoby M. (2005). Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate. Global Ecology & Biogeography 14(5), 411-421.

12.  Moles A.T., Warton D.I., Stevens R. & Westoby M. (2004). Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds in the tropics? Ecology Letters 7(10), 911-914.

13.  Vesk P.A., Warton D.I. & Westoby M. (2004). Sprouting by semi-arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits. Oikos 107(1), 72-89.

14.  Warton D.I. & Hudson H.M. (2004). A MANOVA statistic is just as powerful as distance-based statistics, for multivariate abundances. Ecology 85(3), 858-874.

15.  Moles A.T., Warton D.I. & Westoby M. (2003). Do small-seeded species have higher survival through seed predation than large-seeded species? Ecology 84(12), 3148-3161.

16.  Moles A.T., Warton D.I. & Westoby M. (2003). Seed size and survival in the soil in arid Australia. Austral Ecology 28(5), 575-585.

17.  Warton D.I. & Wardle G.M. (2003). Site-to-site variation in the demography of a fire-affected perennial, Acacia suaveolens, at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales, Australia. Austral Ecology 28(1), 38-47.

18.  Warton D.I. & Hudson H.M. (2002). Hypothesis testing of multivariate abundance data. In: C. Gulati, Y. Lin, S. Mishra & J. Rayner (eds.), Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, pp. 349-360. World Scientific, Singapore.

19.  Warton D.I. & Weber N.C. (2002). Common slope tests for errors-in-variables models. Biometrical Journal 44(2), 161-174.

20.  Westoby M., Warton D. & Reich P.B. (2000). The time value of leaf area. American Naturalist 155(5), 649-656.

21.  Pattinson G.S., Warton D.I., Misman R. & McGee P.A. (1997). The fungicides Terrazole and Terraclor and the nematicide Fenamiphos have little e®ect on root colonisation by Glomus mosseae and growth of cotton seedlings. Mycorrhiza 7(3), 155-159.

 

Software

Falster, D.S., Warton, D.I. & Wright IJ (2003) (S)MATR: Standardised major axis tests and routines. Version 1.0. http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/ecology/SMATR.
This is a stand-alone executable program, with extensive documentation. By May 2006, ISI reported that this package had been cited 23 times.

Warton, D.I. & Ormerod, J. (2006) smatr R package. Version 2.0. This is publicly available on CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/.

Warton, D.I. (2006) smatr Matlab toolbox. http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~dwarton/programs.html

 

Invited seminars/workshops

  • Invited participant at a workshop organised by the Australian Centre of Excellence in Risk Analysis, 29th October-2nd November 2007. "Spatial models for non- equilibrium systems: bio-invasions and climate change range mapping".
  • Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated, Canberra Branch, 29th May 2007. "Which Wald statistic? Implications of reparameterisation of generalised linear models in environmental impact assessment".
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of New South Wales, May 2007. "Which Wald statistic? Implications of reparameterisation of generalised linear models in environmental impact assessment".
  • Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, 12th September 2006. "Penalised likelihood multivariate regression for high-dimensional data".
  • Mathematics and Information Sciences, CSIRO, North Ryde, 28th August 2006. "Modelling high dimensional abundance data using generalised estimating equations".
  • ASC/NZSA 2006, Auckland New Zealand, July 2006. "Modelling high dimensional abundance data using generalised estimating equations".
  • ASC/NZSA 2006, Auckland New Zealand, July 2006. "Evaluating the effect of assessment on student engagement and learning in statistics service courses".
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Sydney, 2first April 2006. "Modelling high dimensional abundance data using generalised estimating equations".
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of New South Wales, 12th April 2006. "Modelling high dimensional abundance data using generalised estimating equations".
  • School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005, 13th May 2004. "Two data analysis problems in ecology model II regression' and analysing multivariate abundance data".
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, February 2003. "Multiple sample testing of multivariate abundance data in ecology".
  • The Statistical Society of Australia (New South Wales) J. B. Douglas postgraduate awards 2002. "Multiple sample testing of multivariate abundance data in ecology".

 

Other seminars

  • IBC 2004 XXIInd International Biometrical Conference, 15th July 2004. "Multiple sample tests for high dimensional abundance data".
  • International Biometrics Society - Eastern North American Region, 3first March, 2004. "Properties of Wald and score statistics - the two sample case for generalized linear models".
  • International Conference of Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas 2001
  • Ecological Society of Australia 1999
  • Joint meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia and the New Zealand Ecological Society 1998
  • Five internal seminars within the Department of Statistics and the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, during his PhD (2000-2003).